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The Post-9/11 City in Novels: Literary Remappings of New York and London

Product Description: Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work...read more

By Karolina Golimowska

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9780786499373 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement.

Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror

By Liliana M. Naydan

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9781611487435 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $85.00

If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right

By Christopher Douglas

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9781501702112 | Cornell Univ Pr, May 17, 2016, cover price $39.95

The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness As Strategy for Social Change

Product Description: This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of post-9/11 American society is important in considering diverse forms of the lived experiences and subjectivities of black people in the novels...read more

By E. LÆle Demirtï¿½rk

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9781498534826 | Lexington Books, May 15, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness.

Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel After 2000

Product Description: What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or the fall of the Twin Towers?In the light of postmodernism's programmatic critique of a humanist notion of the subject and an emphatic understanding of events, Subject of the Event shows that selected American novels after 2000 offer an alternative to the âdeath of the subject...read more

By Sebastian Huber

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9781501317125 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall?

The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television

Product Description: Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity...read more

By Keith Wilhite (editor)

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9781611477184 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, March 3, 2016, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity.

The Post-apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-first Century: Modernity Beyond Salvage

Product Description: Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad knowledge of the history of apocalyptic literature, Hicks examines the most influential post-apocalyptic novels written since the beginning of the new millennium, including works by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Jeanette Winterson, Colson Whitehead, and Paolo Bacigalupi...read more

By Heather J. Hicks

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9781137553669 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 16, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel.

After Critique: Twenty-first-century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age

Product Description: Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cadre of key twenty-first-century authors. Through authoritative readings of foundational texts from writers such as Percival Everett, Helena Viramontes, Uzodinma Iweala, Colson Whitehead, Tom McCarthy, and David Foster Wallace, Huehls charts a distinct move away from standard forms of political critique grounded in rights discourse, ideological demystification, and the identification of injustice and inequality...read more

By Mitchum Huehls

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9780190456221 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cadre of key twenty-first-century authors.

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

By Sara K. Day

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9781617038112 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 3, 2013, cover price $55.00

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9781496804471 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 8, 2015), cover price $30.00

Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Product Description: Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction...read more

By Derek J. Thiess

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9781138842571 | Routledge, October 27, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction.

Playing With Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel

By Preston Park Cooper

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9781433130069 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, September 30, 2015, cover price $79.95

The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium

Product Description: The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and philosophical development that led to the demise of postmodernism by relating it to the idea of 'authenticity': immediate experience that eludes direct representation...read more

By Wolfgang Funk

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9781501306167 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 24, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories.

Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television

Product Description: As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone. Initially, filmmakers, writers, and other artists wrangled with its meaning, often relying on fantastical, ethnic, or exceptionalist themes to address the psychic dread of the terrorist attacks...read more

By Paul Petrovic (editor)

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9781442252677 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 17, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone.

Embroidering the Scarlet a: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

A guide to complementary medicine discusses a variety of conventional and alternative remedies for such conditions as back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, bursitis, gout, arthritis, and Lyme disease. Original.

By Janet Mason Ellerby

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9780425156940, titled "Treating Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Joint Conditions" | Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | also contains Treating Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Joint Conditions | About this edition: A guide to complementary medicine discusses a variety of conventional and alternative remedies for such conditions as back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, bursitis, gout, arthritis, and Lyme disease.

9780425156889, titled "Lifeline" | Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | also contains Lifeline | About this edition: Sensing a good story in Donna Marchant, an abused woman, reporter Jack McMorrow is horrified when Donna is murdered after his article is published and the suspicion falls on her boyfriend and him.

Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby

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9780472072637 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 15, 2015, cover price $85.00

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9780472052639 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 15, 2015, cover price $34.50

Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-sixties American Historical Romance

By James J. Donahue

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9780813936826 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $59.50

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9780813936833 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $27.50

Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives

Product Description: Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and Black South African postapartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins, names the therapeutic work of the present, and inscribes the possibility of the future...read more

By Erica Still

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9780813936550 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 17, 2014, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma.

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9780813936567 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 17, 2014, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma.

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature

Product Description: The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American literature. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend...read more

By Allard den Dulk

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9781628923315 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 18, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American literature.

Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

Product Description: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture...read more

By Mary K. Holland

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9781441130617 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 25, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success?

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9781628925340 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success?

The Powers of the False: Reading, Writing, Thinking Beyond Truth and Fiction

Product Description: Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of âthe powers of the false,â Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that deal with the Shoah, with colonialism, and with racialized identities...read more

By Doro Wiese

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9780810130043 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 30, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable?

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction

By Peter Ferry

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9781138016040 | Routledge, September 12, 2014, cover price $145.00

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

By Judie Newman

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9780415899123 | Routledge, January 16, 2013, cover price $145.00

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9781138813953 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $48.95

The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity

By Arin Keeble

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9780786478347 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 24, 2014, cover price $40.00

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies and "Terrorists"

Product Description: As the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath influence new developments in spy fiction as a popular genre, an examination of these literary narratives concerned with espionage and terrorism can reshape our approach to non-fictive representations of the same concerns...read more

By Cara Cilano

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9780415684514 | Routledge, May 7, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: As the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath influence new developments in spy fiction as a popular genre, an examination of these literary narratives concerned with espionage and terrorism can reshape our approach to non-fictive representations of the same concerns.

Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.s. Fiction in the Twenty-first Century

A guide for discriminating travelers offers profiles for more than nine hundred places to stay throughout eighteen European countries, including a converted German farmhouse and a medieval castle in Burgundy. Original.

By Caren Irr

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9780231164405 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 17, 2013, cover price $95.00

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9780231164412 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 17, 2013, cover price $32.00

9780312114473, titled "Europe''s Wonderful Little Hotels & Inns, 1995: The Continent" | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $17.99 | also contains Europe''s Wonderful Little Hotels & Inns, 1995: The Continent | About this edition: A guide for discriminating travelers offers profiles for more than nine hundred places to stay throughout eighteen European countries, including a converted German farmhouse and a medieval castle in Burgundy.

9780312114831, titled "America''s Wonderful Little Hotels & Inns: Fourteenth Edition : New England" | 14th edition (St Martins Pr, December 1, 1994), cover price $16.99 | also contains America''s Wonderful Little Hotels & Inns: Fourteenth Edition : New England | About this edition: Offers description and information on rates, addresses, facilities, and location of small inns in New England and Eastern Canada

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